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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. CMT recently partnered with Hyundai to offer its customers real-time roadside assistance and repair services. In the final year of his Ph.D.,

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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A new study by MIT researchers, published this month in Atmospheric Environment , finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more NO x emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.

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SES begins pilot production of solvent-in-salt electrolyte for hybrid Li-metal batteries

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Earlier in 2021, SES announced the signing of “A-sample” joint development agreements with General Motors and Hyundai Motor Company. SES is a next-generation battery technology company spun-off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). —Qichao Hu, Founder & CEO, SES. Earlier post.)

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Thomson Reuters report finds established auto industry companies, not Silicon Valley, leading development of autonomous driving tech

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Toyota (Japan) is the overall global leader in autonomous automotive innovation, followed by Bosch (Germany), Denso (Japan), Hyundai (South Korea) and GM (US). Carnegie Mellon University and MIT have four and seven unique inventions, respectively. Toyota and Hyundai take the second and third places.

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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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Funded by Hyundai (the company also acquired Boston Dynamics in 2020), the Institute’s first few projects will focus on making robots useful outside the lab by teaching them to better understand the world around them. Marc Raibert Raibert was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before founding Boston Dynamics in 1992.

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ICCT Senior Fellow projects incremental manufacturing cost of hybrids can drop to ~$1,200 by 2020; subsequent surge in adoption to ~70% of new vehicle sales by 2030

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Examples of this system are recent introductions by Nissan, VW, Hyundai, BMW and Mercedes, he noted. Different manufacturers are exploring different approaches: Hyundai with a separate belt-alternator-starter system, Nissan with a second clutch, VW by retaining a conventional torque converter, he said. Click to enlarge.

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Video Friday: Mini Pupper

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MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. Paper ] Hyundai Motor Group has introduced its first project with Boston Dynamics. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics. [ Grey Walter. Kodiak ] Thanks Kylee!

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